Dumbshit bastards. Really. You guys are so desperate to sell cars that you’ve ripped off Tucker: The Man and His Dream for some of your commercials and have paid some poor actor to pretend to be Harley Earl so he can hawk your wares with an air of remembering the genius who helped make Buick and GM famous.
Of course, you guys wouldn’t be in such trouble if you weren’t turning out such ass ugly vehicles as the Aztek, the Aveo, or the Rendezvous, to name but a sampling of the four wheeled abortions GM’s been turning out in recent years.
However, in all your pomposity of Buick’s “heritage” you fail to mention Harley Earl’s SUV design with this interesting accessory. I don’t know why you fail to mention it, since it’s as ugly as anything you’ve guys got on the road now.
Shit, learn your history, before you start making commercials claiming that the vision of the man who made you great (and then promptly forgot all about until your sales took a steep slide) is still running things.
Preach it, Brother Tucker!! Good god, those are some of the ugliest vehicles known to mankind. After reading your post, I wonder if the reason they are showing these commercials is so that they can power their plants using electricity generated by Harvey Earl spinning in his grave
I wouldn’t mind seeing Harley Earl ask that GM design hottie in the ads to “make the back seat nice and wide, so I don’t crush my hat while I’m banging you back there” and then tinkle the ice in his Scotch & Soda.
I don’t know anything about cars or what you’re complaining about, but to heck with the scotch and soda - I wanna know why you can’t buy a car with a “Wrangler seat” on the hood anymore.
Apparently, the entirety of Harley Earl’s legacy can be boiled down to portholes and hat racks. I weep for automotive design.
My recent trip to Disney World included a spin around the ride “Test Track,” which dumps you into a bit of a Buick showroom at the end. The floor had a few cars on it, and there were curtained-off stages that swept open at intervals while a Harley Earl thing showed on the TV screens. With any sense, Buick would’ve used those curtained-off bits to show the Earl originals that inspired their new cars. Of course, since the new cars ARE NOT ACTUALLY INSPIRED by any Harley Earl-era originals, the stages just held more stupid ugly modern crap with no flair.
Given that Harley is played in the commercials by John Deihl, I’m just waiting for the GM car with the big hood ornament of a scowling Mickey Mouse designed to assist in running over nonwhites and Northern liberals.
I’ve always wondered about those Harley Earl ads. Ninety percent of people don’t know who he is, and the ten percent who do would not buy one of those ugly cars. While I feel that Harley Earl was the pioneer of auto design, I always thought the cars in the fifties were hideously ugly. I know I may be in the minority, but to me all the excess chrome and continental kits and whitewall tires looked like a six year olds idea of what a car should look like.
Admitted, those commercials are stupid. The only way they could get worse if they hired Celine Dion to sing at the same time.
But, I’ve always like the Aztec & Rendevous.
